Apparently, Rachel Ray can make this black bean salsa in 10 minutes.
It took me 60. I doubled the recipe, but that doesn’t make me feel any less incompetent.
I even used her knife.
Update: Crap…I just realized that I forgot the garlic.

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I’ve started a new blog to share the more specific details of our church planting journey with friends and supporters. The blog is called The Hodos Project.

Hodos Project is a code name of sorts for this early stage of our family’s transition to Austin to form a new faith community. Hodos is the Greek word […]

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This morning, I begin my last week as a pastor at

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Last year, for Macey’s fifth birthday, one of the presents we gave her was some money to give to a microfinance loan through Kiva.org. That money was repaid in full to us a few weeks ago, so this morning, we sat down and selected a new recipient of those funds.
Macey was first interested in South […]

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When I first started this here blog, I tended to include a lot more in the way of random posts about links I’d found, quotes from readings, quick little thoughts, etc. As other tools have made their debuts on the internet, I’ve started using some of them for some of these same purposes. So, with […]

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Besides the obvious anxiety about being peed on during a diaper change, having a baby boy in our home the last month and a half brings a whole new set of emotions that are unique from what our girls have brought. Often, while tenderly holding this helpless little man, I have pondered the mystery of […]

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I’m quite certain that Dr. Seuss is near the top of my personal heroes list. Every tale of rhythm and words has something meaningful to say.
With Christmas looming, the girls and I snuggled in bed and read How the Grinch Stole Christmas! tonight. May the few lines of his rhyme below be as valuable to […]

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I have a Kindle on order from Amazon. Right now, they are so backordered that they aren’t even able to give me a potential shipping date. I know that is true because I check the order status about 6-10 times a day!
This is the second Kindle I’ve ordered. I ordered one on Thanksgiving, because at […]

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Our dear friends Justin ‘Daddy’ and Erin Narducci recently got word that they are going to be parents again for the second time in a year. This time, it is via adoption from Ethiopia. I hope you will take the time to read a little more about their hearts and this process on their blog.
Congrats […]

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I fancy myself a blogger, but I guess I probably need to actually blog more than one or two times a month if I want to fancy myself so. Life hasn’t brought anything major our way, but there has been enough going on to keep me from putting a lot of energy into writing (or […]

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In July and August, I’m going to lead a study on film and theology in our home. As I’m thinking through how this will look, the purpose of the study is not going to be to use a few movie clips here and there to illustrate some points or Bible verses I want to reinforce. […]

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How many seminaries are there where you can look out a classroom window to see Puget Sound, a cruise ship in port across the street, and a faculty member smoking a pipe down by the train tracks?

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Some random thoughts that went through my head while watching Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End late last night:

“I wish Captain Jack would get some kind of ointment to put on that sore on his cheek. It hasn’t healed for three movies now.”
“Was I supposed to take LSD before watching this scene?”
“I want more […]

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